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01

Virtual LAN across any network.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 93

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%92
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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02

Open source WireGuard mesh with SSO.

BSD-3-Clause WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 93

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%92
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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03

Firezone is an open-source, self-hostable remote access platform built on WireGuard that creates direct, encrypted peer connections between users and internal resources through lightweight gateways.

Apache-2.0 + Elastic License 2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 85

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%83
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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04

Headscale is an open-source coordination/control server that is API-compatible with the official Tailscale client apps, letting teams self-host their own control plane while keeping the same mobile an.

BSD-3-Clause WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 81

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%79
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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05

WireGuard mesh network for your own devices.

BSD-3-Clause WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 78

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%75
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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06

OpenZiti is an open-source, programmable zero-trust networking platform stewarded by NetFoundry that builds an overlay fabric of routers and identities instead of exposing listening ports on hosts.

Apache-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 78

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%75
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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07

Self-hosted WireGuard network automation.

Apache-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 78

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%75
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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08

Nebula is an open-source peer-to-peer mesh networking tool originally built and battle-tested internally at Slack before being open-sourced.

MIT WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 70

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%67
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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09

Defguard is an open-source, Rust-built WireGuard VPN manager that adds multi-factor authentication, an identity/SSO gateway, and a web UI for managing peers, gateways, and access policies.

AGPL-3.0 (core), Proprietary (enterprise module) WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 70

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%67
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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10

innernet is an open-source tool built by Tonari that wraps raw WireGuard to automate peer key exchange and IP address allocation for private mesh networks, similar in goal to Nebula and early Tailscal.

MIT LinuxmacOS
Alt Score

Alt Score · 62

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%58
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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11

The modern VPN protocol and reference tools.

GPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
Alt Score

Alt Score · 40

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%33
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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